Drug News

ALCOHOL – USA
CDC to states: Don’t privatize alcohol sales – Seattle Post Intelligencer

As they grapple with a $5.3 billion deficit, Washington’s lawmakers are considering two measures that would partially or totally privatize the state’s liquor operation. Proponents of both say such a move would increase tax revenues, but alcohol consumption increases dramatically in places that privatize liquor sales.

ENERGY DRINKS/ALCOHOL – USA
Effects of Energy Drinks Mixed with Alcohol on Behavioral Control: Risks for College Students Consuming Trendy Cocktails – Online Library

An energy drink appears to alter some of the objective and subjective impairing effects of alcohol, but not others. Energy drinks may contribute to a high-risk scenario for the drinker.

METHAMPHETAMINE – USA
Methamphetamine’s changing face: Drug cooks exploit loopholes – MLive.com

Six years after Michigan declared war on methamphetamine with a slew of new laws, the drug is back, worse than ever.

ALCOHOL ADDICTION – USA
Advocates assail proposed cuts in NH treatment - Boston Globe

“It was killing me and everyone around me,” Welch said of his addiction. Advocates say alcohol is big business in the state.

HEROIN – USA
Mother allegedly hid heroin in teenage son’s pants – Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies discovered six bags of heroin inside the pants of a 14-year-old in Canyon Country after pulling the boy’s mother over in a traffic stop, authorities said Wednesday. The 31-year-old mother from Lake Los Angeles admitted she hid the bags in her son’s pants.

MOLLY – USA
Drug ‘Molly’ may have played role in SUNY Canton student’s suicide – WatertownDailyTimes.com

A Suny Canton student who committed suicide Sunday night is suspected to have taken a drug named “Molly,” which produces effects similar to Ecstasy. Police said they were searching for those who supplied him with the drug.

PRESCRIPTION DRUGS – USA
FDA and White House Combat Prescription Drug Abuse – Pharmaceutical Technology Magazine

The plan, titled “Epidemic: Responding to America’s Prescription Drug Abuse Crisis,” aims to expand state-based prescription-drug monitoring programs, recommends convenient and environmentally responsible drug-disposal methods, supports education for patients and healthcare providers, and directs law-enforcement resources against “doctor shopping” (i.e., visiting several prescribers to obtain controlled substances).

PRESCRIPTION DRUGS – USA
Lawmakers fault anti-drug abuse plan’s lack of painkiller restrictions – The Hill

A pair of Republican lawmakers is taking the Obama administration to task for not considering tougher restrictions on painkillers in its new strategy to combat prescription drug abuse.

HEROIN – USA
Reno launches campaign to fight kids’ use of heroin – Reno Gazette Journal

However, prolonged use and addiction can push a user into injecting the drug. Sabrina’s parents, Ginger and Craig Paulsen said during a Thursday press …

DRUG ADDICTION – CANADA
Tories launch anti-drug ad campaign – MacLeans

A new television and social media campaign aimed at warning teenagers of the ravages of drug addiction showing a drug user spiraling into addiction, will run on teen channels and be featured on teen programming from now until mid-March. The health minister says she expects about 65% of teens 13-15 years old to see the ad by then.

HEROIN – NEW ZEALAND
Grandmother had $220000 of P in suitcase – Stuff.co

Horrobin “packed the container of methamphetamine into her suitcase, … The suitcase also contained 24 carefully wrapped new methamphetamine pipes and …

PRESCRIPTION DRUGS – USA
Prescription Drugs in Southern West Virginia: Part IV – WVNS
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In the 90s the community noticed a spike in IV, teen and overall drug usage. It was obvious at the time that prescription drugs were already playing a big …

CLUB DRUGS – USA
Gallon of GHB found during Sandy drug raid – Deseret News

Drugs such as GHB, Ecstasy and ketamine became known as club drugs, or “clean drugs” because they didn’t require a needle. GHB is also known as liquid …

PRESCRIPTION DRUGS – USA
Pinellas school board member tells of family struggle with prescription drug abuse – Tampabay.com
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Robin Wikle stands before a wall of portraits of other people’s dead children. The 19-year-old who took unknown pills, sparking a mother’s frantic call to 911. The two brothers found dead at home — three weeks apart. “Death is final,” Wikle says to a gym full of Dunedin Highland Middle School students.

COCAINE – USA
Another arrest made in crackdown on drugs – Anderson Independent Mail

Another arrest was made Friday in a crackdown against a drug ring that investigators say distributed $30 million worth of cocaine …

CLUB DRUG “MOLLY” – USA
Former “Molly” Drug User Gives Insight – WTVC

‎NewsChannel 9 found a former user of the club drug “Molly.” He spoke openly about his experience and danger of this designer drug. …